Private Day Tour from Beirut​

Beiteddine, Deir el Qamar & Moussa Castle

Discover the Chouf region on this 8 hour tour from Beirut. Our First stop will be at Beitddine palace. Second stop will be at Deirelkamar. a town restored and maintained in a style many centuries old. Our Final Stop will be at Moussa Castle, a Castle of a Dream !

Itinerary:Our tour starts with the visit of Deir El Kamar, a village consisting of stone houses with red tiled roof, and continues to Beiteddine Palace, a master piece of the early 19th century Lebanese architecture. Our tour ends in Moussa Castle, the castle of a dream. So don’t hesitate to join us!​

From $ 130 usd per tour​

What's included?• Free hotel pick-up and drop-off by a private and comfortable vehicle.• English speaking guide/driver.

Where and When:Meet up location: Your hotel orany location in the downtown area at your convenience.End location: Drop off in the same location from where we started the tour or anywhere that might be convenient to you in the downtown area.Duration: 8 hours

​Beiteddine

​Located in the Chouf region, the Beiteddine Palace will give you the opportunity to contemplate a landscape that will liven up your stay in Lebanon with a new color, its endless olive trees in the heart of bright mountains will leave you dreaming. This palace is one of the jewels of oriental architecture. Overlooking a green valley, this magical place is one of the most visited of Lebanon. A walk in this Moorish palace will allow you to discover its sumptuous rooms, its baths, its superimposed galleries and its patios where the splashing of the water of the fountains will attract your ear. At once prison, fortress, harem, this palace and its magnificent gardens will give you a glimpse of the charm of the region.

​Moussa Castle

​Not far from Beiteddine there is a medieval-looking castle, which at first glance seems like a renovated Crusaders ' structure, but it has nothing to do with Crusaders or Middle Ages. The history of this castle is very unusual – it is a story of one man's courage, faith, patience and hard work to turn a dream into reality.​Poor, Moussa was beaten and mocked by a teacher who told him he would never amount to anything. Even his sweetheart ridiculed him, saying she would never marry him and that she planned to marry someone rich with a castle. It was at this moment that the dream took hold of Moussa’s 14-year-old mind.

As a teenager, Moussa had the fortune to work with his uncle to restore a Lebanese castle. With the money he earned from restoring the castle and other museum work, a 20-year-old Moussa was able to begin work on what would become a lifelong project and obsession: his castle.Moussa bought land in the Chouf Mountains between Deir Al-Qamar and Beit-Eddine and began building. Over the next 40 years, with only occasional help from neighboring peasants, Moussa hand-built his massive, sprawling castle. A fan of medieval architecture, Moussa’s is a true castle with a moat, drawbridge, and medieval-style ramparts.Inside, Moussa was as creative and eccentric, filling the castle with his gun collection, daggers, swords and Bedouin jewelry as well as wax figures depicting scenes from 1960s Lebanon including a room showing a teacher striking a student – a painful memory from Moussa’s childhood.Now in his seventies, Moussa has given his life to his dream, but without question he now qualifies for his high school sweetheart’s desire to marry “someone with a castle.” Moussa also wrote a book, “The Dream of My Life,” about building the castle.

​Deir el Qamar

Deir El Kamar ... the "Convent of the Moon". This name alone makes you dream!In this beautiful region of Chouf where the variety of flora and splendid panoramas flow, is Deir El Kamar, "the convent of the moon", a charming little village in which you will enjoy to hang out during your trip to Lebanon. You will enjoy a stroll through its narrow streets lined with beautiful traditional stone houses, thermal baths, Byzantine churches ... Today, the inhabitants of Deir El Kamar are determined to preserve the architecture of their city, its cobbled streets, its inner courtyards and charming dead ends dating back to the Phoenician era.The place is a marvel for the eyes, we discover an archaeological site, Romanesque-Byzantine ruins and a monastery, which make it one of the best preserved historical villages of Lebanese heritage.​Indeed, it is part of one of the few Christian villages in the Chouf region that was spared by the conflicts until the end of the Lebanon war.